What’s happening in Evangelical land? Latino evangelicals are backing Ron DeSantis despite his views on immigration. An evangelical building interfaith bridges with Mormons. Karen Swallow Prior’s career and the Southern Baptist Convention. In my view, she has been an essential […]
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Evangelical roundup for July 3, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Has marriage taken a backseat to gender issues among evangelicals? Rebecca Naylor, Southern Baptist missionary surgeon. When did male headship become the core to Southern Baptist identity? Shane Claiborne on 4th of July services: […]
Whitworth University will now hire LGBTQ faculty
Here is Yonat Shimron at Religion News Service: Whitworth University, a Christian school affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has revised its policies to allow for the hiring of LGBTQ faculty and to add sexual orientation to its non-discrimination statement. […]
Evangelical roundup for June 29, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? French evangelicals speak-out about attempts to remove Christian holidays. New faculty at Fuller Theological Seminary. The Evangelical Olympics in Galicia. A new tool for worship bands. “We Will Rock You” as a Christian song. […]
Evangelical roundup for June 26, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? We spent the weekend covering the Christian Right “Road to Majority” conference. Read our posts here. This weekend The Way of Improvement Leads Home podcast dropped Episode 113. Historian Larry Eskridge joins us to […]
Episode 113: The “Jesus Revolution”
In this episode we talk to historian Larry Eskridge about the film “Jesus Revolution.” Eskridge, the author of God’s Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America, places the film in context, discusses the legacy of the Jesus People Movement for […]
Evangelical roundup for June 22, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Peter Wehner continues to go after evangelicals for supporting Trump. European evangelicals meet to learn more about Roman Catholicism. The Church of God gathers for its annual convention. The Council for Christian Colleges & […]
Evangelical roundup for June 19, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? C.S. Lewis and space aliens A review of two new documentaries about evangelicalism. Karen Swallow Prior on Tim Alberta’s new book: Anglican evangelicals on the Uganda anti-LGBTQ policy. Not all evangelicals believe women should […]
Evangelical roundup for June 15, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Happy Birthday to my favorite evangelical Christian–Joy Fea! See our coverage of the Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention here and here and here and here and here and here. Harvard Magazine features […]
“This is going to be an inquisition now”: Rick Warren responds to the SBC vote to keep Saddleback Church out of the denomination
Get up to speed here. Watch: Warren also got into politics. Here are some snippets: “We lost. I wasn’t expecting to win…We actually had about 700 more votes than I figured we’d get….” “The SBC is a democracy and in […]
Evangelical roundup for June 12, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Rick Warren vs. the Southern Baptist Convention: A guide. What is an evangelical? 92% of white evangelicals say there are only 2 genders. Brazil’s “March for Jesus“ Hours before he will preside over the […]
Episode 111: “The Evangelical Battle Over the End Times”
If you want to learn more about the evangelical fascination with the rapture, Israel, the antichrist, and the prophetic books of the Bible you will enjoy this episode. Our guest is Daniel Hummel, author of The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: […]
Evangelical roundup for June 8, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land: Deconstructing Molly Worthen’s conversion. Joel Looper reviews Daniel G. Hummel, The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism. Where do Reformed evangelicals go after the death of Tim Keller? Can evangelicalism be revitalized?: Is evangelical renewal […]
Evangelical roundup for June 5, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? A primer on the Southern Baptist gender wars World Relief, Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, National Association of Evangelicals, SBC Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and National Latino Evangelical Coalition support immigration reform. […]
Evangelical roundup for June 1, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Are evangelicals still ruling the GOP? Should evangelicals support Trump in 2024? The Israel religious affairs minister apologizes to evangelicals. Evangelicals in Uganda and the death penalty for homosexuality. Albert Mohler is all in. […]
Evangelical roundup for May 25, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Molly Worthen on Tim Keller: A Brookings Institution senior fellow reflects on the life of Tim Keller. David Brooks on Tim Keller. Jim Daly (Focus on the Family) on Tim Keller. Jim Wallis on […]
Burge: “People are picking their religion based on their politics, not their politics based on their religion.”
Political scientist Ryan Burge writes: “There is no doubt in my mind that politics is one of the main culprits for the emptying out of American religion.” After laying out his statistical case, Burge adds: Social behavior doesn’t just change […]
Stanley Hauerwas on the Christian church: “My sense is that God is making us leaner.”
Longtime readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of John Inazu’s work, especially his book Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference. Until I read this interview at Inazu’s Substack, I did not realize […]
What are people saying about the death of Tim Keller?
When someone like Tim Keller passes away we get a glimpse into the current state of public discourse and the way social media reveals our country’s deep differences. Here are some representative tweets and links. George W. Bush Christian music […]
The New York Times remembers Tim Keller
Keller’s hometown paper: The Rev. Timothy J. Keller, a best-selling author and theorist of Christianity who performed a modern miracle of his own — establishing a theologically orthodox church in Manhattan that attracted thousands of young professional followers — died on Friday […]